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Mark Zuckerberg has topped Warren Buffett to become the world’s third-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Facebook co-founder trails only two other tech giants: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has said it would sell off Sky News to Disney after facing regulatory concerns over Fox’s monopoly on the British news market. Earlier this year, Disney proposed a takeover of all of 21st Century Fox, which has yet to be approved by regulators.

Following claims that Ecuador spent $5m to protect Julian Assange, the country removed extra security at its London embassy. The WikiLeaks founder has been at the embassy since 2012 after being granted asylum and believes he will be extradited by the U.S. if he leaves.

Happy 20th Birthday, Google! Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a research project at Stanford, they called the search engine "Google" after the mathematical term "googo." The term refers to the No. 1 followed by 100 zeros, to reflect their mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined $600,000 for saying "losing is our best option" on a podcast this week. The Mavericks are currently one-half game away from the worst record in the NBA -- also putting them within one game from the top pick in the next draft lottery.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos called President Trump's criticism of journalists "dangerous" during an interview at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. "It is a mistake for any elected official, in my opinion — I don’t think this is a very out-there opinion — to attack media and journalists," Bezos said.